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How I Trade For a Living

Rocksolid68, The way you are capturing your views of the market and relaying them here in this thread offers some great insight for the new comer. I like the way you have displayed the charts/information that you view along with a synopsis of what you take from them. These postings are much appreciated!

I just want to thank everyone that so kindly has thanked me in this journal as well as those that have private messaged me.

I hope to reach your expectations!

Alright, here is another. Now we are getting into my two "trigger pulling" charts.

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What's this? This is my Intraday Intermarket Correlation Chart!

This is a fancy way of saying that this chart shows me what other markets are doing.

This is a whole entire different topic that I could spend months on. Heck, there are billions of dollars spent on this stuff. Anyways, I shall make this one brief.

On top of the chart we have bonds. Bonds tend to move inversely of the ES (ES goes up, Bonds go down). Because of this, I inverted the chart. This way the bond chart on top tells me the market sentiment of Bonds relative to the ES.

Next one down is gold! Gold tends to move inversely of ES as well. This chart is inverted like the bonds chart.

Next down is Crude Oil (CL). CL is a wild beast with no master. CL is tricky because some days it moves the ES and some days it doesn't. This one is something you must keep an eye on.

These charts are some of my favorite tools for confirming my trades. They can tell you a lot about the market sentiment for the day. I advise anybody that hasn't used these correlations to do so, for they are crucial in my trading and can benefit yours as well.

Hey everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your long weekends! (I suppose I am speaking to Americans only with this :P)

I am going to post my last chart, then I will start with the actual daily journal!

Here is my trade screen- a 2 minute chart

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What am I looking for on here?

-Day structure. What does the days price action appear to be etc.
-Areas to take profit and areas to add.
-Price action
-The subgraph is displaying the NYSE TICK. Google this for more information
-I watch TICK pretty heavily as it shows strength and weakness in the market. It can also give hints as to what type of day it will be (range, trend, etc.)
-Pull the trigger on this chart. Once I have made my thesis, it is this chart I make trades on. (You can see the chart trader on the right)

Once again guys, very brief and vague. I can not wait to dive into the journal aspect of this. Here we go!

Well, here you go! I would appreciate feedback; what else do you want to see, what should I get rid of etc.

I am only going to choose a few charts each morning to show where I am gathering my thesis.

Daily:

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-As the yellow arrows point out, every time we test all-time-highs, we do so on very little volume. (lack of interest up there)
-As for within the white box, down days tend to have more volume than the up days
-Days that test the bottom of the range tend to have the most volume (people finding cheap value?)

30-minute:

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-Yesterday made a run for the Monthly VWAP (M-VWAP) but was unable to make it. (Bulls hopped in)
-We ended up testing R2 which is pretty bullish
-We tested the previous high area (bullish)
-Pivot held overnight (ON)
-Weekly VWAP (W-VWAP)

6-Hour:

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-If the market is trending up it tends to stay in between +1SD and +2SD. Right now we are above +1SD (bullish)
-May try to run it up to the ~90 area.

Overall thoughts:
-I think that we are going to test all-time-highs (ATH's) today
-We will either break out of the range with massive volume, or we will fizzle and drop in.

Trading Plan:
-Fade all the way to the W-VWAP (~80)
-Target will be ATH's
-If we break W-VWAP with conviction, I will flip short and aim for a retest of M-VWAP

(W-VWAP, Monthly +SD1, Pivot, and standard support are all in the same area)